Romans 9 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ I speak the truth in Messiah, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Set-apart Spirit,

² that I have great sadness and continual grief in my heart.

³ For I myself could have wished to be banished from Messiah for the sake of my brothers, my relatives according to the flesh,

⁴ who are Yisra’ĕ

⁵ whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Messiah according to the flesh, who is over all, Elohim-blessed forever. Amĕ

⁶ However, it is not as though the word of Elohim has failed. For they are not all Yisra’ĕ

⁷ neither are they all children because they are the seed of Aḇ

⁸ That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of Elohim, but the children of the promise are reckoned as the seed.

⁹ For this is the word of promise, “At this time I shall come and Sarah shall have a son.”

¹⁰ And not only so, but Riḇ

¹¹ Yet, before they were born or had done any good or evil – in order that the purpose of Elohim, according to choice, might stand, not of works but of Him who calls –

¹² it was said to her, “The greater shall serve the lesser,”

¹³ as it has been written, “Yaʽ

¹⁴ What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with Elohim? Let it not be!

¹⁵ For He says to Mosheh, “I shall favour whomever I favour, and I shall have compassion on whomever I have compassion.”

¹⁶ So, then, it is not of him who is wishing, nor of him who is running, but of Elohim who shows favour.

¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this same purpose I have raised you up, to show My power in you, and that My Name be declared in all the earth.”

¹⁸ So, then, He favours whom He wishes, and He hardens whom He wishes.

¹⁹ Then you shall say to me, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His counsel?”

²⁰ But who are you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”

²¹ Does not the potter have authority over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for value and another not for value?

²² And if Elohim, desiring to show wrath, and to make His power known, with much patience tolerated the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

²³ and that He might make known the riches of His esteem on vessels of compassion, which He had prepared beforehand for esteem,

²⁴ even whom He called, not only us of the Yehuḏ

²⁵ As He says in Hoshĕ

²⁶ “And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called sons of the living Elohim.”

²⁷ And Yeshayahu cries out on behalf of Yisra’ĕ

²⁸ For He is bringing a matter to an end, and is cutting it short in righteousness, because יהוה  shall cut short a matter on the earth.”

²⁹ And as Yeshayahu said before, “If יהוה  of hosts had not left us a seed, we would have become like Seḏ

³⁰ What shall we say then? That gentiles not following after righteousness, have obtained righteousness, even the righteousness of belief,

³¹ but Yisra’ĕ

³² Why? Because it was not of belief, but as by works of Torah. For they stumbled at the Stone of stumbling.

³³ As it has been written, “See, I lay in Tsiyon a Stone of stumbling and a Rock that makes for falling, and everyone who is believing on Him shall not be put to shame.”